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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The future of our nation's productivity and | ||||||
| 3 | competitiveness in the global marketplace depends on the | ||||||
| 4 | success of all men and women; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Women have been discriminated against in | ||||||
| 6 | education, the workplace, and society as a whole; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, Women continue to earn no more than 80 cents on | ||||||
| 8 | the dollar compared to men; and
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| 9 | WHEREAS, The wage gap is even greater for most women of | ||||||
| 10 | color; African American women earn 63 cents and Latina women | ||||||
| 11 | earn 54 cents for every dollar earned by a man; and | ||||||
| 12 | WHEREAS, The pay gap has been shown to start as soon as one | ||||||
| 13 | year after college; this inequality affects not only women, but | ||||||
| 14 | their families and society as a whole; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, The pay gap between women and men has long-term | ||||||
| 16 | effects on women's economic security; such a gap affects | ||||||
| 17 | women's Social Security earnings, their ability to save for | ||||||
| 18 | retirement, and their children's education; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, Pay equity is closely linked to the eradication of | ||||||
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| 1 | poverty and is essential to having a highly-motivated | ||||||
| 2 | workforce; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, Equal Pay Day was originated by the National | ||||||
| 4 | Committee on Pay Equity in 1996 as a
public awareness event to | ||||||
| 5 | illustrate the gap between men's and women's wages; the day, | ||||||
| 6 | observed in April, symbolizes how far into the year a woman | ||||||
| 7 | must work, on average, to earn as much as a man earned the | ||||||
| 8 | previous year, with Tuesday being the day in which women's | ||||||
| 9 | wages catch up to men's wages from the previous week; because | ||||||
| 10 | women earn less on average than men, they must work longer for | ||||||
| 11 | the same amount of pay; this wage gap is even greater for most | ||||||
| 12 | women of color; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, Equal pay is a priority for all women and for our | ||||||
| 14 | society at large; therefore, be it
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| 15 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 16 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 17 | designate April 4, 2017 as Pay Equity Day in the State of | ||||||
| 18 | Illinois in order to raise awareness about this endemic | ||||||
| 19 | inequity.
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